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Urban Composition III 🫟
都市构图 III 🫟
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Fachliche Einordnung von Optionen zur Neuplanung der #Carolabrücke - Beitrag aus verkehrswissenschaftlicher Sicht zur Unterstützung des lokalen Diskurses
„Von 57.000 Kfz/Tag im Jahr 2003 auf nur noch 31.000 Kfz/Tag im Jahr 2022. Vor dem Hintergrund stagnierender Kfz-Nachfrage ist ein solcher Ausbau weder verkehrlich erforderlich noch wirtschaftlich sinnvoll – weder im Bau noch im l…

Carolabrücke: Jetzt die Weichen für eine zukunftsfähige Mobilität stellen | Sven Lißner
Carolabrücke: Jetzt die Weichen für eine zukunftsfähige Mobilität stellen Nach dem Einsturz der Carolabrücke im vergangenen September schreitet der Rückbau aktuell voran. Gleichzeitig stehen im Bauausschuss und Stadtrat wegweisende Entscheidungen zur künftigen Gestaltung an. Ein Teil des Stadtrats spricht sich für einen Wiederaufbau mit vier Kfz-Spuren aus – trotz deutlich gesunkener Verkehrszahlen: Von 57.000 Kfz/Tag im Jahr 2003 auf nur noch 31.000 Kfz/Tag im Jahr 2022. Vor dem Hin…

“Running an Activity in the Pub is a great way to meet other people near you who are into the Fediverse.” It would be incredibly difficult for us to agree more. https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/activity-in-the-pub

After the meeting friday between Trump and Putin we will know whether the frantic diplomatic activity was succesful.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/europe/ukraine-russia-zelensky-…

How a Call From Trump Ignited a Frantic Week of Diplomacy by Ukraine
Once a vague proposal for a territorial swap gained clarity, a worried President Volodymyr Zelensky worked to rally allies before Friday’s Trump-Putin summit.

Entent, which has received funding for 96 CCS chargers for heavy-duty vehicles, has now opened its first location in Rotterdam 🇳🇱. Interesting to see a newcomer in this space.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/entent-bv_entent-evcharging-em…

Today, we officially open the barriers on the 's-Gravenweg in Rotterdam. | Entent BV
Today, we officially open the barriers on the 's-Gravenweg in Rotterdam. A very special milestone for Entent and the start of our network of smart, business charging stations throughout Europe. Enough reason for a celebration, right? 🎉 Besides the official opening, there is plenty of room to toast during a nice networking reception with tasty snacks and drinks. And to bring a bit of Amsterdam to Rotterdam 😉, there will be a real Dutch herring cart with an accordion player. Here's to mor…

Did my first #AmateurRadio bike race support today as a family activity. My oldest and I ran separate ham SAG vehicles, and my wife ran net control some of the time.
I had borrowed a mobile U/VHF rig from my club so that we could have one rig in each vehicle, but then my coax was apparently damaged for the antenna in the other car which disabled its mobile rig, so "bring your …

I decided that kernel module to flash an LED on disk activity had no business being a kernel module now since it's not pulling privileged data from inside the kernel to do its thing. It's a userspace binary that does the exact same thing (polling /proc/diskstats) now. It should work on any machine that has an LED controllable via /sys/class/led/ (e.g. power, caps lock, whatever)

From The Guardian at 15.22 EDT
"Lauren Gambino
Border patrol has showed up outside Gavin Newsom’s event at the democracy center in Los Angeles.
Local news reported that at least one man was arrested, as the governor vowed on X that Democrats would “not be intimidated”.
Inside, speakers referenced the enforcement activity. Ann Burroughs, president of the Japanese American National Museum, said the center was built on the site because it was where, in 1942, Japanes…

What a nice loop this was!
Lot's of cyclists on the main roads. Seems like everyone is enjoying the weather 😊
#cycling #mountainbiking #mtb

#CareerMoves
https://…

Our CTO, Ronald Snijder, has decided to take the next step in his career and will therefore be leaving the OAPEN Foundation at the end of this month. | Niels Stern | 16 comments
Our CTO, Ronald Snijder, has decided to take the next step in his career and will therefore be leaving the OAPEN Foundation at the end of this month. I have published a short farewell blog post here: https://lnkd.in/d4UW_k5p Wishing you all the best in your new role, Ronald! | 16 comments on LinkedIn

@… You could report this criminal activity to the Washington field office of the FBI: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/washingtondc…

Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users receive notifications of new posts and replies from selected accounts, as it expands its sports presence (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/699671/bluesky-push-n…

Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
Bluesky’s latest update added more notification settings, as well as activity notifications to see whenever certain accounts have a new post.

Slept through it. Catch-up couldn't go beyond 2 AM (#WWDC25 was at 1 AM SGT) because reached the 800 limit on Mastodon 🤦‍♂️
Maybe Mastodon should limit it by time duration or something instead.

New post on #Pixelfed:
https://pixelfed.social/p/midtsveen/848525352129301491

The “Neural Data” Goldilocks Problem: Defining “Neural Data” in U.S. State Privacy Laws
https://fpf.org/blog/the-neural-data-goldilocks-problem-defining-neural-data-in-u-s-state-privacy-laws/
@…

Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users receive notifications of new posts and replies from selected accounts, as it expands its sports presence (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/699671/bluesky-push-n…

Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications
Bluesky’s latest update added more notification settings, as well as activity notifications to see whenever certain accounts have a new post.

#Dialog statt Debatte:
Gespräche von Mensch zu Mensch
Am Donnerstag, 17.07.2025 findet in #Mainz erstmals ein Dialogabend "Sprechen & Zuhören" statt. Gesprochen wird über diese Frage:
Wie geht es mir mit dem gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt?
18:30-20:30 Uhr
ZMO M…

I ❤️ GPs that get #parkrun: 'Become a parkrun practice today and improve the health and wellbeing of your patients through increased physical activity, skill development, friendships and socialising, mutual support and personal empowerment.' https:/…

And it's moving to phase 2:
#DIctator

And it's moving to phase 2:
#DIctator

Just did a nice #mountainbike loop nearby. My wife wanted to test her strength and endurance, especially with her new bike.
Well, it was a great ride! She did super well and I was surprised about how well it was for me, too!
Ohh and despite being doupt full at the start, I was super happy that I brought my water filter to refill my bottle during the ride!

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 304691 nodes and 563069 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Urban Solitude IV 🈳
城市孤独 IV 🈳
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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A friend started this UK Parliament petition and I supported it:
“Review how controlled substances are classified”
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732610

Petition: Review how controlled substances are classified
The Government should review how controlled substances are classified under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 based on current scientific evidence of their actual harm and addictiveness. We think criminalisation of substances creates a monopolised illegal drug market that funds further criminal activity.

Great! No need to worry about tech companies manipulating us with AI — they can just hook us up to neurotech and manipulate us directly. W00t! *
Why EU Policy Must Catch Up to the Neurotechnology Boom https://techpolicy.press/why-eu-policy-must-cat…

Why EU Policy Must Catch Up to the Neurotechnology Boom | TechPolicy.Press
Neurotechnology that can read and interpret brain activity is rapidly entering the mainstream market with no regulatory oversight, writes Virginia Mahieu.

🤯 Interpretable EEG-to-Image Generation with Semantic Prompts
#eeg #ai

Interpretable EEG-to-Image Generation with Semantic Prompts
Decoding visual experience from brain signals offers exciting possibilities for neuroscience and interpretable AI. While EEG is accessible and temporally precise, its limitations in spatial detail hinder image reconstruction. Our model bypasses direct EEG-to-image generation by aligning EEG signals with multilevel semantic captions -- ranging from object-level to abstract themes -- generated by a large language model. A transformer-based EEG encoder maps brain activity to these captions through…

"You must have a market for interesting jobs, good housing, and a market to switch partners. Because people do that too"
#sovereignity #North

Ransomware Group Anubis has leaked what they extracted from Disneyland Paris
#ransomware

Ransomware.live 👀
Ransomware.live tracks ransomware groups and their activity. It was created by Julien Mousqueton, a security researcher. The website provides information on the groups' infrastructure, victims, and payment demands. It also includes a live map that shows the latest ransomware attacks.

U.S. immigration authorities extend raid activity in Los Angeles area amid protests | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/los-angeles-paramount-ice-raid-1.7555498?cmp=rss

Avoid the word "pedestrian." You marginalize a basic human activity when you give it a four-syllable Greek-derived name.
Say walk, on foot, foot traffic whenever you can.

Weather Jiu-Jitsu: Climate Adaptation for the 21st Century
Qin Huang, Moyan Liu, Upmanu Lall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09376 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09…

Weather Jiu-Jitsu: Climate Adaptation for the 21st Century
Extreme climate events, e.g., droughts, floods, heat waves, and freezes, are becoming more frequent and intense with severe global socio-economic impacts. Growing populations and economic activity leads to increased exposure to these events. Scaling existing physical, financial, and social infrastructure to provide resilience against these extreme events is daunting, especially as one ponders projected climate changes. Climate extremes pose a challenge even if decarbonization and geoengineering…

For all the German speakers in my network: this wonderful and entertaining podcast by ZEIT Wissen takes my research on workplace environments and makes it personal by walking through their own offices, assessing them and checking in with staff on how they feel
The big question: which office form is best? Single offices, shared or open-plan? Assigned desks or activity based working?
Must listen! 👏🏻

Einzelbüro, Großraum, Zuhause? Wo der Mensch am besten arbeitet
ZEIT WISSEN. Woher weißt Du das? · Episode

Like other large #FreeSoftware projects, #Gentoo developers have varying degrees of activity. There are some people who dedicate a lot of their free time to Gentoo, maintain hundreds of packages, participate in multiple areas. Then, there are people with narrower interests, lower commit counts, but they are still putting an effort and making Gentoo a better distribution — and that matters. But then, there is the tail.
There is a few of developers whose main talents seem to be 1) finding packages that require absolutely minimal maintenance effort, and 2) justifying their developer status with long essays. I mean, this is getting beyond absurd. It is not just "my packages are all up-to-date". It is not even "my packages require very low maintenance, that's why I'm not doing much". It is literally "I deliberately choose low-maintenance packages, so I don't have to do anything". But of course, all these people definitely need commit access to Gentoo, and show off their Gentoo developer badges, and it's *so damn unfair*.
And in the meantime, other developers are overburdened, and getting burned out. And they step down from more things. And who takes these things over? Of course, not the developers who just admitted to not having much to do…

We're recruiting on our MSc Sociology and Data Analytics for next September at the University of Limerick @…

This MSc offers in depth knowledge of sociological analysis, research… | Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick
This MSc offers in depth knowledge of sociological analysis, research methods and social science analytics - including high level training in data, data science, and data mining, and a range of sequenced topics that include crime, law, and deviance, culture and media, health and well-being, political analysis and social movements, and stratification and social inequality. The combination of high level training in research methods and robust exposure to core topics in Sociology and the Social …

The real question is why is a fucking sociopath allowed to teach a class at a university? Oh, it’s Stanford. As you were. https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113022749498944409

Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from "bulletproof" hosts to "residential proxies" that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals

Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight
In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” services that cover their tracks by making it look like everyday online activity.

Kleiner Ausflug in die Absurditäten des Arbeitrechts und die Ideen der Arbeitsgerichtsbarkeine zur Schriftform. Es entscheiden nach dem LAG Düsseldorf nicht die Vertretungsregelungen bei der Schriftform, sondern der subjektive Eindruck, ob ein abgeschlosser Vertrag vorliegt. 😩

#arbeitsrecht #bedingung #schriftform #tzbfg #ligaklausel | Dr. Alexander Bissels | 17 Kommentare
😕 🐗 „Die spinnen, die Römer“, sagt Obelix – und die Arbeitsrechtler?! Auch (ein bisschen) – zumindest manchmal! 🐗 😕   😕 Obwohl ich schon über 20 Jahre „hauptamtlich“ im Arbeitsrecht unterwegs bin, bin ich über manch eine Entscheidung der Arbeitsgerichte (zumindest von Zeit zu Zeit) immer noch erstaunt – so auch jüngst über ein Urteil des LAG Düsseldorf.   ⁉️ Worum ging es? Im Wesentlichen um die Wahrung der Schriftform einer auflösenden Bedingung des…

children's activity from my older sister's church

"David Attenborough’s ‘Ocean’ is a brutal, beautiful wake-up call from the sea"
#Oceans #Environment #Film #Media

David Attenborough's 'Ocean' exposes the unseen destruction of the seas
The new film “Ocean With David Attenborough” is both a breathtaking celebration of marine life and a sobering exposé of the industrial forces pushing the ocean toward collapse. With never-before-seen footage from mass coral bleaching to the violent destruction of bottom trawling, it reveals the hidden toll of human activity beneath the waves. But it’s also a story of hope that spotlights thriving marine reserves and the power of protection. Timed to World Oceans Day and the U.N. Ocean Co…

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. On German #EV charging prices, Quartets and diesel.

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a… | Jaap Burger
Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. Thank you, Felix Hamer, for drawing attention to this recent slide from BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e.V. The title suggests that EV charging would only cost the same as filling up a diesel or petrol car for the same distance in an 'Extremszenario…

If you're on kernel 6.15 or greater and still want to use your ThinkPad's power LED as a disk activity indicator, I've got your back. New version of the kernel module out now: https://github.com/theodric/block-led-trigger

«What would have happened if companies like Microsoft and Meta instead spent the money on things that actually drove productivity, or created a valuable competitive business that drove economic activity? Hell, even if they just gave everyone a 10% raise, it would have likely been better for the economy than this, if we’re factoring in things like consumer spending. It’s just waste. Profligate, pointless waste.»
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/

Fedi meta-musings.
Just went to look at a Mastodon account I interacted with a little while back. Their follow requests require approval (which is fair enough) and the bio states
Got a blank or nonsensical avatar, no visible activity, no pointers to your identity? I'll ignore your follow request.
Well I guess that's me out. I have a good reason for wanting to be pseudonymous, as do many others here I imagine.
Of course it's every user's right to set whatever conditions they want on who follows them, but a blanket refusal on anyone not featuring a "real name" and a human-appearing avatar feels quite over-sensitive to me.
#fediverse #mastodon

…aber ein Search Index, der spezialisiert ist für LLMs und generative AI. 🤦🏽
https://mstdn.party/@ferreiros/114982088596257343

I’ve been discussing some agent swarm based development work on LinkedIn. So far it’s going well, I’m figuring out how to get the results I want from the tools. As I say there, it feels more like managing a team of experienced product managers and developers (which I’ve done a few times in my career) than doing developer work faster.

Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. | Adrian Cockcroft
Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. I took some time away from it but last week I continued cleaning up the code. The app was working for me but Claude had built over 200 tests, unit tests and UI automation tests and I spent a day focused on getting them all to work, which found a few issues in the app code. Claude isn’t as good at writing Swift as Python (which tends to work first time) but when the compile failures and test error logs are passed back to it, it d…

🎵 And your wise men DO know how it feels
To be thick as another brick in the wall 🎵
REUTERS: A building brick made almost entirely from recycled rubble may help solve one of the construction industry’s biggest environmental challenges — managing its significant waste.
https:/…

Could these recycled bricks help build a low-carbon future? | Reuters
A building brick made almost entirely from recycled rubble could help solve one of the construction industry’s biggest environmental challenges — managing its significant waste.   Unlike traditional clay bricks, the K-BRIQ, made by Kenoteq in Edinburgh, Scotland, produces 95% fewer carbon emissions.   #brick #construction #rubble #environment #climatechange #building

A lot to celebrate in the lab at the end of the school year — students at commencement, and a campus award for our paper presenting a reconstruction of Joshua tree flowering activity since the early 20th century
https://lab.jbyoder.org/2025/05/22/commence…

Scientists call for permanent ban on high seas exploitation #sea

Scientists call for permanent ban on high seas exploitation
Extractive activity in international waters—including fishing, seabed mining, and oil and gas exploitation—should be banned forever, according to top scientists.

Willkommen auf meiner Blockliste
From: @…
https://digitalcourage.social/@clemensg/114745468620387901

This year’s spike in fire activity appears to be driven by several large fires across
Central and Southern California, including three major fires that devastated parts of Los Angeles County in January.
But even without those unprecedented January fires
— the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes
— this year would still outpace the five-year average for this point in the season

Make your voices heard.
I also added something to a few bugs. @… really needs to go back to the drawing board and think about whose problems they are trying to solve. Because who is this proposal for? The only beneficiaries are AI companies.

Is this reality?
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7341857033932914691/

I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. | Mark Russinovich
I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. Linus had never met Bill, and Dave had never met Linus. No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner 😉 | 619 comments on LinkedIn

#ContemporaryContradictions #HashTagGames
Rules: include as many contradictions s you'd like. Can be profound or trivial. Each contradiction is stated via exactly 1 or 2 questions, no statements and not more than 2 questions. Try to group yours into a single post, rather than one post per contradiction, so that it's easier to see more voices when scrolling the hash tag.
Why does "race" work according to the "one drop rule" if you have Black ancestors, but according to "blood quantum" if you have Indigenous ancestors? Who benefits from this arrangement?
Why do we think of seeds as merely a reproduction mechanism for trees, instead of thinking of trees as merely a reproduction mechanism for seeds, especially since some plants can spend millennia as seeds but can survive for only part of a year after sprouting? Are metabolic activity or structural complexity really so important?
If Columbus discovered America, did Batu Khan discover Europe? What is an "Age of Discovery?"
Why don't corporations in the US try to lobby the government for a single-payer healthcare system where the government foots the bill for healthcare instead of companies paying to deeply subsidize their employees' healthcare? What benefit do they gain that's worth that cost, which in other countries is paid for via taxes?
Why is the cost of renting (which gets you zero equity) anywhere close to the cost of a mortgage (which eventually gets you ownership)? If the costs are similar but the benefits are so different, why does anyone ever rent?
Why do we obsess over the fruit/vegetable classification of tomatoes, but not corn, okra, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.?

First day without rain.
Right after work we brought our car to some maintenance and drove back by bike. Well not the direct way, but a fun way 😊
It felt really good!
#cycling #BikeTooter #getoutside

Literally just watched a Mission Impossible movie about this.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-announces-new-action-to-detect-hostile-state-activity-using-ai-on-visit-to-the-arctic

UK announces new action to detect hostile state activity using AI, on visit to the Arctic
The UK is stepping up its efforts to safeguard national security by leveraging AI to detect hostile state activity in the Arctic.

Proud of myself today!
Two new wesnoth songs uploaded!
About my GTA5 activity...well it was about damn time I shared some of that and that I started transferring files with real tools instead of workarounds like uploading to another Mastodon instance, then re-uploading...

Grassy field somewhere north of Ithaca with heavy convection activity in the sky
#photo #photography #landscape #ithaca

Small Multifamily Investment Snapshot — June 2025
Arbor - June 10, 2025
“Once again, small multifamily demonstrated its resilience in the first quarter of 2025. Pricing stabilized, origination activity improved, and credit standards gained momentum toward pre-pandemic benchmarks.”

Small Multifamily Investment Snapshot — June 2025 - Arbor Realty
Amid ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, the small multifamily sector remains well-positioned to weather volatility and build on market momentum as the economy navigates stormy conditions.

What if the railways could promote stability rather than disrupting society? (🇩🇪:🤯)
The Swiss railways explore using batteries on trains to smoothen a.o. peaks related to coordinated train schedules, which facilitate easy and reliable connections at many stations around the clock (🇫🇷:🤯)
https://www.

What if the railways could promote stability rather than disrupting society? | Jaap Burger
What if the railways could promote stability rather than disrupting society? (The German mind cannot comprehend this). The Swiss railways are exploring ways to use batteries on maintenance trains that can operate independently of overhead wires and combine them as an aggregated fleet with smart energy management. This system would ensure that the batteries are charged in time for the next task, reduce battery ageing by avoiding long periods of low or high charge, and could be used to reduce po…

Ripple plans to acquire stablecoin payments platform Rail for $200M, set to close in Q4 2025; Rail says it handles 10% of all global stablecoin payment activity (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/ripple-bu…

Trump doesn't want information on ICEBlock to be shared, so... UPDATE: I understood however there are possible serious security issues with this app
#trump

Since at least 2009, I've had 4-5 git repositories online with gitweb.cgi for projects I worked on in the mid/late 2000s. Nothing super important, and no activity since 2010 or so, but just sitting there available.
I just had to kill the web server because facebook's web crawlers are hitting the webserver so hard and overloading the cheap VPS that it's on (which I'm using for other things). It has literally been no bother for 15 years until now.
Meta truly is a …

First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
- The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
- Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
- The public detriment must be of such degree and extent as to justify the suppression of the private activity.
…

City Snaps - Chengdu 🌠
城市抓拍 - 成都 🌠
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford Pan 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

😶‍🌫️ Optimists are alike, every pessimist has their own way: Researchers explore patterns of neural activity
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-optimists-alike-pessimist-explore-patterns.html

Optimists are alike, every pessimist has their own way: Researchers explore patterns of neural activity
When thinking about future events, optimists' brains work similarly, while pessimists' brains show a much larger degree of individuality. The Kobe University finding offers an explanation why optimists are seen as more sociable—they may share a common vision of the future.

It's time for the #EV industry to hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to roaming. You can't have your cake and eat it. Make the cake bigger!
https://www.linkedin.com/…

I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop… | Jaap Burger
I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop pretending roaming works and start holding the ecosystem to a higher standard? As a fossil in this industry, I remember how EV roaming took off 15 years ago – it was a no-brainer from a user perspective and a logical step to ensure that the EV charging market could grow, benefiting everyone in the sector. As an early electric car driver eager to travel abroad, I spent a lot of time getting the right passes for local n…

Reddit now lets users hide posting and commenting history on their profile via a Content and Activity setting, as part of a new "Curate your profile" section (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/redd

Reddit now lets you hide content, like posts and comments, from your user profile | TechCrunch
Reddit has announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what's shared on their user profiles.

I did it! My wife convinced me to join a pre work cycling loop. A great start into the day.
#cycling #BikeTooter #training

Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang!
[Full speed ahead in reverse gear!]
What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE: Rückwärts-Weltrekord: Die Fahrt ging noch weiter… | Jaap Burger
Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang! [Full speed ahead in reverse gear!] What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry. This week, a German manufacturer set a new world record for reversing in an electric truck. The German automotive industry as a whole is also attempting to reverse in electric mode: it has presented a 10-point plan to postpone, water down, weaken, undermine, regret, delay, reduce, replace, backtrack on and ridicule European CO2 re…

Natura Urbana VII 🏡
城市自然 VII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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CrowdStrike says it investigated 320 cases of North Korean operatives gaining remote IT jobs in the US, Europe, and elsewhere in its 2025 Threat Hunting Report (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/crowdstrike-north-korean-operatives/

CrowdStrike investigated 320 North Korean IT worker cases in the past year
Threat hunters saw North Korean operatives almost daily, reflecting a 220% year-over-year increase in activity, CrowdStrike said in a new report.

Urwid goes brrrrrr

🌼 Flowers unfold with surprising precision, despite unruly genes
#flowers

Flowers unfold with surprising precision, despite unruly genes
Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new Cornell study shows that even in this precise, patterned formation in plants, gene activity inside individual cells is far more chaotic than it appears from the outside.

Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stea…

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Air pollution in Baltimore's Curtis Bay community linked to nearby coal terminal activity, wind #Baltimore

Air pollution in Baltimore's Curtis Bay community linked to nearby coal terminal activity, wind
Bulldozer activity involving coal at an open-air facility at the Port of Baltimore is closely linked to air pollutants in the adjacent neighborhood of Curtis Bay, according to a community-driven study co-led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and South Baltimore community members.

✅ Quick loop with my wife between some rain showers.
Feels so good to get out!
#cycling #BikeTooter #getoutside

👼 Kindness counts—even to a five-day-old baby: Newborn eyes and brain activity reveal innate social behavior recognition
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-kindness-day-baby-newborn-eyes.html

Kindness counts—even to a five-day-old baby: Newborn eyes and brain activity reveal innate social behavior recognition
They've barely opened their eyes, but newborn babies already seem to prefer nice behaviors.

DefiLlama: monthly DeFi fees have risen to $577M from an April low of $366M, with major protocols generating $275M through automated market-making services (The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/360379/pancak

Nonono, seriously I missed playing chess here on the fediverse...
I'm not saying that only because it seems the only reason I'm in any search results altogether is because of my chess activity...and I like fame undeserved and for no reason so I wanna continue playing chess I guess.
And the place that's gonna happen is gonna be lichess of course and with no comment cause that's best for me.

Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles
to allow US diplomats to review their online activity
before receiving educational and exchange visas, the state department has announced.
Those who fail to do so will be suspected of hiding that activity from US officials.
The new guidance, unveiled by the state department on Wednesday, directs US diplomats to conduct an online presence review to look for
“any indications of hostility towa…

Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/03/ondo-…

Exclusive: Ondo and Pantera Capital earmark $250 million for real-world asset tokenization
Tokenization lags only stablecoins in crypto activity.

Anthropic details "persona vectors", patterns of activity within an AI model's neural network that control its character traits, such as evil and sycophancy (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior

Oh man, I'm so glad that my wife convinced me to join her on an evening #cycling loop.
I just was soooo tired. But some physical activity helps to get the circulation going again.
#getoutside

If you build it, they will come.
UK DSO National Grid Energy Distribution has worked to remove barriers for consumer energy resources participating in its local flexibility market. With great success, over 50% of all #EV chargers in its area are now registered.

If you build it, they will come | Jaap Burger
If you build it, they will come Applying that well-worn phrase here: 'It' is a local flexibility market. 'They' refers to the flexibility inherent in EV home charging that has not previously been used to support the local grid. National Grid Electricity Distribution's impressive statistics show that more than 50% of EV chargers in its area are registered to deliver flexibility services. In terms of the number of assets, 90% of those registered are from domestic households, mainly in the form …

Bustling 🫜
攒动 🫜
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Ahh 1h calm cycling workout after an office day. Physical activity is a blessing.
#afterwork #cycling #getoutside

An Afternoon in a Café ☕️
咖啡厅的下午 ☕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/26/switzerlands-100b-deeptech-engine-comes-…

Switzerland’s $100B deeptech engine comes Into focus
Today, the launch of The Swiss Deep Tech Report 2025 spotlights how Switzerland has quietly become one of the world’s most advanced and efficient deeptech ecosystems. Curated in close collaboration with Dealroom.co, Startupticker and venture capital firms Founderful and Kickfund, the report is the first of its kind to map the full scope of Switzerland’s deeptech performance - from research institutions and patents to venture activity and late-stage outcomes. With over 1500 Swiss deeptech …

Back from a very nice MTB ride with my wife.
Based on a common loop to the #schwarztennAlm with some variations so that we had less road and saw some new locations around #badWiessee and #rottachEgern

An Afternoon in a Café ☕️
咖啡厅的下午 ☕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

DappRadar: NFT lending market volume has dropped 97% from a peak of ~$1B in January 2024 to ~$50M in May 2025, with borrower activity falling by 90% (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/real-world-assets-revitalize-dy…

Amsterdam is celebrating its 750th anniversary. Tomorrow, this will be celebrated with activities on a large section of the ring road: for one day, there will be a bit more city for people and less for cars. Hopefully, this will be an appetiser for more.
https://opdering.amsterdam/en/

Ring rolls out Video Descriptions, an AI-powered beta feature that generates text summaries of motion activity from its doorbells and cameras (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/692523/ring-ai-powe…

Ring camera alerts are about to get a lot smarter
Ring’s new Video Descriptions feature will tell you what your video doorbell or security camera sees, so you don’t have to watch the video.

The European Commission has published new requirements for EV charging points. These requirements will make hardware more expensive and add to the complexity of the already opaque pricing landscape for public EV charging. They also lack a focus on true interoperability from a user's perspective.

The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. | Jaap Burger
The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. From this date onwards, all newly installed public EV charging stations will be required to support the outdated EN ISO 15118-2 standard, without specifying the functionality. From January 2027 onwards, all new public and private EV charging points will be required to support EN ISO 15118-20, again wit…

I've made a summer quiz for EU energy policy nerds 🤓
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_acers-country-sheets-summer-quiz-acti…

Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. | Jaap Burger
Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. What are they doing well and where can they improve? Have they learned from the curriculum and have they acted on previous recommendations? How are they doing compared to their peers? EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) does something similar for countries, their retail energy markets and the level of consumer participation. It's time for their annual …

Satellite company Maxar launches Sentry, an AI service that autonomously guides satellites to monitor cities, ports, and other sites for unusual activity (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

An MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

New York-based Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, says it acquired blockchain data provider Coin Metrics, a source says for over $100M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/16/talos-crypto…

Exclusive: Crypto infrastructure giant Talos acquires Coin Metrics for more than $100 million
The deal is the latest in a flurry of M&A activity in the crypto sector.

Elliptic estimates cross-chain criminal and high-risk activity has topped $21.8B in 2025, up from $7B in 2023; North Korea is responsible for ~12% of the total (Yohan Yun/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crosschain-swaps-move-21b-…